Scott Linstead /
LadybugsMost of us are used to seeing photos of ladybugs, like the one on the left -- the familiar red-and-black round shell, and not much else. Linstead brings us a different dimension of the ladybug with the one on the right. While the photo looks like it was taken outdoors, he took the shot in a studio.
The beetles are drawn to light, he says, so he used a light source on a flower, but kept the light off until he was ready to take the photograph.
"There are situations where eye contact simply does not work to an image’s advantage," he says. "As photogenic as a ladybug can be while crawling on a leaf, in flight they appear rather awkward. The eye as well as the rest of the head is difficult to locate among the clutter of appendages. Their pleasingly symmetric shape transforms into a jagged array of wings, carapace halves, legs and the abdomen."
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